Unicamp campus, in Limeira Reproduction/Unicamp de Limeira Campus City Hall The Unicamp student strike officially ended on Friday night (12), and students on the Limeira (SP) campus had their main demand met: the creation of a working group to implement student housing in the city. According to Víctor Guglielmoni, representative of the Academic Directory of Limeira, the project is now moving forward with defined investment and the analysis of possible land for construction. According to the university, it was decided to create a joint working group to make housing viable, with an investment of up to R$20 million, in addition to measures aimed at student transport, accessibility, coexistence and expansion of support services. Click here to follow the g1 Piracicaba channel on WhatsApp 🔎 A parity group, according to Guglielmoni, brings together representatives from different sectors with the same weight of participation. This means that students have representation equivalent to the technical part of the university, occupying decision-making seats on the institutional committee. The creation of student housing on the Limeira campus was the central request of students from the Faculty of Applied Sciences (FCA) and the Faculty of Technology (FT) who went on strike on May 6. Land Víctor Guglielmoni told g1 that a viable plot of land has already been identified for the construction of the house. According to him, the Rectory and the University City Hall are negotiating to make the area viable. Until the last update of the report, Unicamp had not commented on the land. However, the representative explained that the space will still undergo analysis by the working group. This committee will be responsible for discussing whether the area really meets the needs of the academic community and whether it is the best place to build student housing. "If it's a place that's very far away or if it's a place that's dangerous and has a lot of violence, we'll probably care. Because we're talking about students. So there are several factors that influence it," he explained. What will the working group be like? According to Víctor, the appointment of the members of the working group must be immediate after the signing of the agreement, and this group will have a period of six months to carry out preliminary technical studies and make the necessary decisions to continue the bidding process. In 2025, it was also decided that a joint working group with 12 chairs would be created to discuss student housing in Limeira. Activities would begin in March 2026, but that did not happen. In the new formation of the joint working group, the students decided to increase the number of chairs to include representatives of the indigenous movement, the black movement and people with disabilities (PCD). Claim history Striking students from USP, Unesp and Unicamp demonstrate in the center of the capital The students stated that, although rector Paulo Cesar Montagner announced, in August 2025, studies for the construction of accommodation on campus, there was no technical group formed to take the project forward. According to Guglielmoni, the main objective of the striking students was to secure a commitment from the Rectory. This is because the construction of student housing had already been promised during the 2023 strike, but was not fulfilled. Furthermore, there was a budget impasse: while the university claimed to study improvements within the budget's possibilities, students criticized the claim that there are no resources to make housing viable. Most expensive housing The lack of student housing intersects with another problem: the increase in the cost of living and real estate speculation around the campus. Currently, according to the university, 452 students receive a Housing Assistance Grant, worth R$725 per month, but the benefit does not cover all expenses. “There is also an issue of gentrification. So, the structure around the university city, which is precisely the place where there is more housing dedicated to students, starts to become increasingly expensive. Then, student life starts to become very expensive", said Guglielmoni. 🔎 Gentrification: urban transformation in which popular or degraded neighborhoods receive investments that increase the value of properties and increase the cost of living. VIDEOS: Everything about Piracicaba and the region See more news about the region on the g1 Piracicaba page.